{"id":62932,"date":"2019-12-12T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/?p=62932"},"modified":"2019-12-12T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T16:45:07","slug":"christmas-letter-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/christmas-letter-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Letter 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Note: you can read this with \u201ceffects\u201d at the Christmas Letter Page<\/a>\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

The year 2019 was another one of those years, some good some bad but we all made it through, so far.\u00a0 Early we made several trips to see young Hockey players and family came to visit.\u00a0 The old man still gets the check\u2026 if you know what I mean.\u00a0 January 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We were and are still making monthly trips to Oklahoma.\u00a0 Family, interests, and things that always need attention.\u00a0 We had our share of snow and some out here say it was a more normal year?\u00a0 I preferred the first two we were out here but, you get what you get.\u00a0 At least living on the Front Range is warmer and the snow disappears rather quickly, most of the time.\u00a0 I would think that if they lived out here they would learn how to drive in snow but NOOOOOOO we are filled with idiots.\u00a0 Oh wait, it has been over run here with California types that don\u2019t know about snow\u2026<\/p>\n

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This is just one of many from that storm but it happens all the time, every snow storm, even the small ones.\u00a0 They drive way too fast, not prepared, and won\u2019t change.\u00a0 I have been on I-25 headed to Denver, both lanes full with less than the \u201cthree second rule\u201d between cars, and we are all having to go 10mph over the speed limit to keep from getting run over.<\/p>\n

I made several winter\/spring swap fest for Ham Radio and the attendance was down from previous years.\u00a0 I guess everyone was out having fun somewhere else? I also had several radio related projects I worked on through the winter\u2026<\/p>\n

We had several more big snows and the BOMB CYCLONE through the winter.\u00a0 The big one this past year was similar to the one in 1977 when we lived out here and it was about 1 months before Amy was born.\u00a0 Read more Bomb Cyclone<\/a> and Bomb Cyclone2<\/a>. Bomb Cyclone 3<\/a>.\u00a0 With all that I am sure glad I got up way too early and fought my way into HomeDepot to get the New Snow Blower.\u00a0 I used the heck out of that this past winter.<\/p>\n

Later in the year I got busy and made two airplanes , as promised, for a friend in Ohio.\u00a0 He wanted them to put up in his Train room\u2026<\/p>\n

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We also had a very late May snow storm of about 18 inches but it disappeared real quick.\u00a0 In June I took off and hiked to the top of Signal Butte, just to say I could\u2026 it is a short hike in distance but a good one for elevation change\u2026<\/p>\n

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There is a trail that runs to the right and around to the top.\u00a0 It is damn steep.\u00a0 Was a great view from the top.\u00a0 Hike to the top<\/a><\/p>\n

I also made several old car shows\u2026 would like to have one but just can\u2019t justify it.\u00a0 But I have more pictures Automobiles and Flying Machines.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The friend I made the planes for came out.\u00a0 First time we had ever met in person, although we had been in contact first by financial media (Motley Fool groups) and then Ham Radio when we both found out the other was a Ham\u2026 something like 12 years or so we have been in contact\u2026 Anyway they were on a road trip out to see their daughter in Wyoming and dropped down for a few days<\/a>\u2026 Then shortly after that visit Sherrie had a few tests done and they found Cancer.\u00a0 Of course it was a very rare (about 1% of all cancers \u2013 Sarcoma) in her leg.\u00a0 So we spent late July and much of August in Oklahoma pushing the issues to get that out and figure out what was next.\u00a0 The Cancer trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In August my brother couldn\u2019t stand it anymore (they live in Houston) so they rented a house near Evergreen and spend about 5 weeks out here in the cool weather so\u2026 we had a Family Meeting<\/a>, like most of our Family gatherings it consisted of FOOD\u2026 and EATING\u2026ha!<\/p>\n

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More trips to OK and meeting up with more family and oh the first of Sept Sherrie bought a new car<\/a>\u2026 We needed that cause we were racking up the miles on the old one.\u00a0 The old one , although still in great shape was crossing 200K.<\/p>\n

But October Sherrie had seen several specialist and was willing to go Chemo as they said it would \u201cLessen the potential return of Cancer by 10%\u201d well she took the first Chemo<\/a> and it was the last one as well because the side effect for here were not worth the small reduction numbers.\u00a0 Oh and we got early snow this year 3 in October already and more in November as well as not in December.\u00a0 The ski country is happy, I am not\u2026<\/p>\n

Of course as we move into September,\u00a0 October and November we have a birthdays and Hockey.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t at GS#3\u2019s birthday party, although we had a little before and after.\u00a0 We did make GS#2\u2019s party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

and a Hockey game for him.\u00a0 He is not as much interested in Hockey as he is in just skating\u2026 he seems to really like skating.. with all those pads on\u2026<\/p>\n

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Just recently we did make GS#3\u2019s Christmas play<\/a>, I am still making Angels, we had a great Thanksgiving and more snow\u2026 Oh and I am practicing with the Instant Pot.\u00a0 It can do Ham and Beans really good.<\/p>\n

So that is the run down for Sherrie and I in 2019.\u00a0 It was just 48 years ago we met.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In January, since the Radiation treatments will be done, we are going on a small cruise with some of her friends from school then? If I can get her out we will be gone as much as we can in-between doctor appointments.<\/p>\n

Ryan is doing fair, still having multiple health issues but he gets to keep his son 3 or more days a week and next year GS#3 will start school so we are in for big changes there.\u00a0\u00a0 Amy is doing pretty good now as we think that she may have the Liver hemangioma under control for a change. She stays way too busy for us old folks with two boys, in school and both dong Hockey and multiple other activities.\u00a0 Seems they are on the go all the time and she has been chief contractor for updating their house in Lakewood.\u00a0 It appears they finally have the basement redone, that is pretty nice compared to what it was\u2026<\/p>\n

So that is the rundown for us, Hope you all have had a great year and Merry Christmas (I don\u2019t give a damn about politically correctness and I fully believe we are going way too far in that direction as well as politics, but that is another story for another time).<\/p>\n

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WD0AJG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Note: you can read this with \u201ceffects\u201d at the Christmas Letter Page\u2026<\/p>\n

The year 2019 was another one of those years, some good some bad but we all made it through, so far. Early we made several trips to see young Hockey players and family came to visit. The old man still gets the check\u2026 if you know what I mean. January 2019.<\/p>\n

We were and are still making monthly trips to Oklahoma. Family, interests, and things that always need attention. We had our share of snow and some out here say it was a more normal year? I preferred the first two we were out here but, you get what you get. At least living on the Front Range is warmer and <\/p>\n

“And Now the Rest of the Story – “Christmas Letter 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-62932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-or-living-daily","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas-letters","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nChristmas Letter 2019 - And That was How it Went<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ishmaels.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/12\/christmas-letter-2019\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Letter 2019 - And That was How it Went\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Note: you can read this with \u201ceffects\u201d at the Christmas Letter Page\u2026 The year 2019 was another one of those years, some good some bad but we all made it through, so far. 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